Mitsuko Uchida & Mahler Chamber Orchestra: Mozart

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra and acclaimed pianist Mitsuko Uchida have now been working together for nine years and together they have appeared multiple times at the Southbank Centre, with each performance proving to be an of intimate and joyous musical occasion.

For the latest performance in their concert series that celebrates Mozart’s piano concertos, they perform the genial and witty B flat major Concerto K.456, which Uchida directs from the keyboard.

For the second part of the concert the woodwind section, which Mozart uses almost like opera singers in his slow movements, has its own chance to shine in Janáček’s bittersweet wind sextet Mladi (youth).

What the critics say

‘This orchestra has wind players you want to listen to all night. Often Uchida and the orchestra seemed, in the best sense, like an old married couple, the one finishing the other’s sentences.’ ~ The Guardian

‘Arms outstretched before their first chords, [Uchida] seemed about to give her colleagues a whopping hug. Given their staggering musicianship during this concert, I’d have happily hugged them myself.’ ~ The Times